Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
ALAN COOPERI just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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When I was a teenager, that was when I fell in love with music. It affected me in a deep way. That’s why I love having teenagers at our shows.
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If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.
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If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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